Liam Neeson wants to be Muslim
Mr. Neeson better look out for the Christian Proselytizers!Excerpt from the Stealth Crusade: The growing movement to hunt souls in Muslim lands-by missionaries who often pass as aid workers, teachers,...
View ArticleHate in America: White Supremacist Website Foments Murder
I am outraged. I don’t know why this story isn’t getting wider coverage. A new Southern Poverty Law Center report shows that:Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 5
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.But first, to us cat lovers (l like dogs too, but not...
View ArticleNo Throwing Slushies, Please.
I just read about this in The Huffington Post. On May 11, Michigan author Christine Weick held up a sign at an intersection in Grandville, Michigan that read "Thank your mom today for not being gay"....
View ArticleCertainly The Best Response To Religiously Sanctioned Bigotry I've Ever Managed
I'll admit it: I enjoy dropping by Breitbart occasionally, seeking perhaps the same vaguely disturbing titillation that bewigged and powdered grandees of the 1600s found in public tours of the Bethlem...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 8
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.But first, elections are 6 months away. We all know...
View ArticleOn Safety and Umbrage
Have you been reading lately about “trigger warnings?” These are alerts to those who find themselves in a college classroom or other public setting, warning them that some of the material they are...
View ArticleWhen Someone Attacks Your Religious Beliefs
I want to thank readers of my blog for being tolerant and accepting of my posts about organized religion. It is a pleasure to write not only among fellow Quakers but also among fellow believers. You...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Re-eh (So Why All The Intolerance?)
Torah reading: Deuteronomy 11:26 to 16:17. Haftarah: Isaiah 54:11 to 55:5. (3rd Haftarah of Consolation).Today, I'm going to focus on the Deutoronomy passage. To a modern reader, this section --...
View ArticleCrossroads finds Women see Republicans as lacking compassion “intolerant,...
They needed a study to discover this??Exclusive: GOP poll of women: Party 'stuck in past'By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMERA detailed report commissioned by two major Republican groups — including one...
View ArticleFundamentalist Christian "love" on display when gay son comes out
Trigger Warning: The video below contains severe verbal and physical abuse.I'm still shaking with anger and revulsion after watching this video recorded by a young man who has come out to his clearly...
View ArticleTolerance Means Escaping Ourselves
If it were my decision to make, I’d make my frame a little less broad, a little less prominent. In group pictures, I stick out prominently as the largest person in the frame. In a recent conference...
View ArticleThe Pot Calling The Kettle Intolerant
A few days ago, a Satanic Temple in Oklahoma held their controversial Black Mass, which mocks the Catholic Church. The reaction from conservatives has proven that free speech is a one-way street,...
View ArticleTotally Tolerant Religious Righties Send Death Threats To Pro-LGBT Kansas Pastor
Rev. Jackie Carter is the pastor of the First Metropolitan Community Church in Wichita. For performing same-sex marriages, she is routinely receiving death threats.From The New Civil Rights...
View ArticleCutting Holes in the Law
Opposition to faith-based legal exemptions is about equality, not payback."I'm sorry, but we don't serve your kind here."This overt discrimination is something that leading gay libertarians, who...
View ArticleSince When Do We Punish the Victims of Violent Acts and Threats?
The Dailykos user arodb posted a few diaries last month discussing how we as a society should treat criticism, ridicule, satire, or what have you, of North Korea, particularly in light of their...
View ArticleChristian Hatriots harangue Muslim kids singing the Star Spangled Banner at...
Christian protesters shout down Muslim kids singing National Anthem at Texas rally: ‘Islam is a lie!’Angry conservative protesters disrupted the Texas Muslim Capitol Day celebration in Austin on...
View ArticleAs you consider our response to the Islamic State
there are two columns/op eds today that you may find relevant.The first is in the Washington Post by a very unsnarky Dana Milbank, titled Remembering the remarkable Kayla Mueller. It begins with a...
View ArticleThree Republicans refuse to attend Idaho Senate Daily Invocation because of...
Pillars made of salt Three pillars of the Idaho community refused to attend their Senate's daily invocation, all three objecting to prayer from a Hindu guest chaplain, Rajan Zed."Fulfill all your...
View ArticleMy growing discomfort with radical liberalism
This is not an easy diary to write.I've considered myself liberal since I was young. My views on the world aligned (and still do) with thoughts we consider classically liberal.I believe in free...
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